Poi dancing – beyond the basics

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Laying a foundation for intermediate and advanced poi

Lecture 1: Welcome to the Poi Dancing – Beyond the Basics!

Lecture 2: What to expect from this course

Lecture 3: Guidelines for submitting video questions

Lecture 4: Poi and your health: Warming up, technique, and stretching

Lecture 5: Ideas for warming up and incorporating the modes of movement

Lecture 6: Why and how to develop good poi-fu and posture for poi

Lecture 7: Footwork 101: pivoting and turning in a circle

Lecture 8: Stepping with turns while moving across the floor

Lecture 9: Circling your arms in opposite directions… like a ninja

Lecture 10: Introducing poitruvian arms

Lecture 11: Looking closely at how you spin the poi

Lecture 12: Ways to move the poi: Spin, extension, pendulum, extendulum, inspin, antispin

Lecture 13: Exploring Planes

Lecture 14: Left/right stall and reverse progression

Lecture 15: (Much) further with left/right stall reverse progressions

Lecture 16: Body tracing preparation: Reviewing the six-beat fountain

Chapter 2: Phase TWO

Lecture 1: Let's warm up our brains with a rhythm/coordination brain game

Lecture 2: Practicing turning footwork

Lecture 3: Poi Fu: Introducing Circular Stepping

Lecture 4: Poi-fu: Arms split-time same direction

Lecture 5: Poi-fu: Split-time same-direction through a FULL TURN on a WALL PLANE

Lecture 6: Introducing Switchy-Switchy

Lecture 7: Introducing crosspoints

Lecture 8: Introducing Jiggying

Lecture 9: Planes 201: Saloon doors

Lecture 10: Basics of rhythm: Upswing, downswing, inswing, outswing

Lecture 11: Exploring isolations

Lecture 12: 5-beat weaves

Lecture 13: Forward 5-Beat Weave: Slow Motion from Above

Lecture 14: Backward 5-Beat Weave: Slow Motion from Above

Lecture 15: Tips on not getting dizzy

Lecture 16: Meet the tree: Using objects for visceral reference

Chapter 3: Phase THREE

Lecture 1: Warming up the body and brain with poi fu

Lecture 2: Exploring and understanding cardinal focus points

Lecture 3: Practicing circular stepping

Lecture 4: Poilates – Core conditioning for poi

Lecture 5: The Jedi Grip

Lecture 6: Combining ways to move the poi: Zero points and cool combos

Lecture 7: Playing with the planes of buzzsaw

Lecture 8: Exploring extended poi and flowers along a wall

Lecture 9: Planes: The one-beat windmill

Lecture 10: Body tracing: Archer weaves

Lecture 11: Challenge: Turning with weaves with clean planes

Lecture 12: Footwork: Adding back-step for traveling

Lecture 13: Playing with two pillars to improve planes

Lecture 14: Q&A: Poi-Fu: Practicing pivoting 180 degrees side to side

Chapter 4: Phase FOUR

Lecture 1: Warm up

Lecture 2: Flowing with Poi-fu

Lecture 3: Combining footwork and poi-fu

Lecture 4: Poilates 201

Lecture 5: Tips for practicing no-beat windmill

Lecture 6: Mastering 2-Beat Weaves: Surprisingly Advanced and REQUIRED for upcoming moves!

Lecture 7: Review and master 4X4 fountain as a mirrored progression

Lecture 8: Turning in the weaves high and low – where it can go

Lecture 9: Dancing with Poi: Rhythm and Reels

Lecture 10: Flowers and CAPs

Lecture 11: Introducing the whirling progression…

Lecture 12: Footwork: Turning on concrete safely

Lecture 13: Introducing clockwork: Tick-tock

Lecture 14: A fun tip: Practicing split-time with a friend!

Chapter 5: Phase FIVE

Lecture 1: Warm up with pirouette progressions and rhythm

Lecture 2: Moses progression

Lecture 3: Combining 4X4 and turning with weaves high/low

Lecture 4: Switchy switchy into wall-plane flowers

Lecture 5: Warm up part 2: Poi fu progressions

Lecture 6: Adding arms and poi to circular stepping

Lecture 7: Jiggies behind the back

Lecture 8: Combining types of poi movement: swing and spin + poi fu = wow

Lecture 9: Isolations continued

Lecture 10: Antispin flowers

Lecture 11: Rhythm and timing continued

Lecture 12: Keep working on tick-tock: Some places to go

Lecture 13: Feedback on behind-the-back jiggies: flexibility and being comfortable

Chapter 6: Phase SIX

Lecture 1: Warm up

Lecture 2: Poi fu brain games: going further

Lecture 3: Basic CAPs (Capped Antispin Patterns)

Lecture 4: More on 4-petal antispin… adding turns!

Lecture 5: Nick's favourite stalling pattern

Lecture 6: Back to horizontal buzzsaw and UFOs

Lecture 7: Lead-ups to spiral wraps: Bounce off of arms, then wrists

Lecture 8: Mastering Mexican Wave : Focus on Crosspoints

Lecture 9: Planes: Saloon doors 3 (OLDER VIDEO BUT GOOD TO WATCH!)

Lecture 10: Switchy-Switchy into wall plane flowers from the side, way better video!

Lecture 11: Rhythm and timing: 2-in-1s

Lecture 12: More on turning and whirling with inspin

Lecture 13: Split-time moves sequence…

Lecture 14: The MISSING reels…

Chapter 7: Phase SEVEN

Lecture 1: Warming up: Introuducing 3-beat weave with your feet

Lecture 2: Making sure you can turn with wallplane splittime opposites

Lecture 3: Poi-fu: Buzzsaw fingers continued: Let's go 3D!

Lecture 4: Footwork: What and Where and When: Making safe decisions and habits

Lecture 5: Turning on cement continued

Lecture 6: Playing with various lockouts from weaves